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"Have fun, Wini, and don't dig up anything you wouldn't be proud to bring home." – Joan Johnson J...

"Each evening, I would take all of the money we had made that day at the Monolith Store, and I...

“Your vocabulary is mean and impoverished, but entirely adequate to express your thoughts.” – Engli...

"I used to break horses for Joe Mendiburu, he'd gather horses from the desert and I'd get 'em...

"Look, my fave-rett – a booful purple fala!" – Kaylee Lambert Kaylee said this when she was thr...

“I don’t know if I would have survived some of the things I’ve been through in my life if I didn...

There is a species of gentle snake found throughout the Tehachapi Mountains, a familiar reptile...

Hollyhocks are one of the few ornamental flowers that naturalize so well in the Tehachapi Mountains...

There are two events that have occurred every August for many decades in Tehachapi. One is the annua...

The Tehachapi Mountains are known to include floral and faunal representatives of multiple...

It is now High Summer in the Tehachapi Mountains. After a very cool spring and early summer, high te...

Tehachapi Pass and Oak Creek Pass are known for being windy (hence all the wind turbines), which is...

I've enjoyed seeing a couple of pairs of California Quail (Callipepla californica) that were...

Bee Balm is a wonderful flowering perennial with big attractive blossoms that attract hummingbirds...

When you hear the name of the Kern County city of Ridgecrest, do you immediately think to yourself:...

This is a traditional Nuwä (Kawaiisu or Southern Paiute) story that was told for centuries to explai...

When Bud Lutge first started coming to Tehachapi in 1936, in many respects it was like another...

“The prehistoric evidences of past races found in this region are worthy of some description. . . I...

"We moved to Tehachapi in winter, and I expected it to be cold, but what really made me realize...

“Broke is what you get when you let yer yearnings get ahead of yer earnings.” – Cowboy Wisdo...

"We didn't have any electricity when we were living up at the Mendiburu Ranch (south of Highline...

"It's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!" – Kenny Che...

“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” – George R.R. Marti...

“Corn should be a foot high by the Fourth of July.” – Old American Farm Saying...

Among the best-represented genera of plants in Kern County are the lupines, who number an amazing...